Re: Every one spies
"But such is politics. Buy US gas, not Russian!"Yeah cos Donald Trump is the ultimate representation of good in the world . . . The US hasn't started more wars since world war II than any other nation . .
So far, Trump's only really started trade wars. But give him time. The rest is simply business. So the EU overtook the US as the world's largest economy. Obviously that's a competitive challenge, especially as the EU federalises and exerts more influence internationally. One way to curb expansion is to create division. Worked with the USSR, works for the EU. So the EU had been steadily growing it's trade with Russia. With a bit of Russophobia and some sanctions, that's been slowed or stopped, costing the EU billions.
Oil's been part of that. EU buys a lot of gas from Russia. US develops it's own production, boosting it's economy and generating a surplus. But the US is isolated. Canada doesn't need it. S.America has (had) it's own. Who's going to buy LNG from East Coast US, especially when there aren't many LNG terminals in the EU. So Germany says it'll buy some. Where will it land it, and why would it pay far more than it'd cost from existing pipeline deliveries? Junker flew to Washington and said the EU would buy more. That's nice. How many gas turbines do the EU buildings in Brussels have?
And that's just one commodity. Agriculture's also part of the challenge. Especially as Trump's trade wars have meant China's not buying. Russia's wheat production's overtaken the US. The EU welcomed Ukraine into the fold with it's rich agricultural land. Ok, so Ukraine got screwed by the EU's agricultural quotas, but it's all part of geopolitics and balance of trade wars.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
